Reading List 2026-01-06

ok, looks like it is turning into monthly..... I'll try to keep it 2 weeks after all these holidays.
but at least this one as a lot of novels....

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[Even this game is acceptable ? Please all of you just ask for refund !]https://www.qidian.com/book/1046637414/) ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(这游戏也吃得下？求求你们退款吧)
(Modern urban, video games, system, no harem)

Yet another losing money to be tycoon kinda novel. MC is in a new world, the system is that for every refund his game gets, he gets paid 100X. so if his game on steam was refunded by the user for $100, he would get $10,000. So he is making games that look good on the outside so people will buy it, but then gets worst soon so players will be disgusted/frustrated and ask for a refund, PROFIT. Of course things won't turn out the way MC planned, each of his game started bad, and then through a fortunate turn of events, gets loved by the players so he gets 0 refund, but still makes some profit from selling the game. If you know the genre well, you know how it goes. the fun part is always see how author turns the game around and MC reacting to not been able to make the massive profit. this one is ok, I just like the genre I guess.

Start with the base from Red Alert game, But you want me to make a movie !? ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(开局红警基地，你却让我拍电影？)
(modern urban, America, system, no harem, ruthless MC)

This is mostly anti-america. MC has a system that grants him base and units from the Red Alert game series, but ask him to make movies. So he setup the base in Tijuana Mexico and started filming a anti-drug film. The film is basically just a real documentary of how he used the military units from Red Alert and slaughtered the corrupt police and drug gang militias and took control of the city. Then It is just bigger battles to control the region and eventually whole of America under the guise of making movies.

Forcing me to sweep the whole Music Industry ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(逼我横扫乐坛是吧)
(Chinese entertainment, urban, no system, finished)

MC is in a new world in a powerful family. So he has been trained for many things and posses great music talent, along with a perfect memory to replicate any work from earth. But he is lazy, he just want to enjoy life and doesn't want to work as in his previous life on earth he worked hard as a singer only to die right as he became successful. But his family and everyone around him doesn't want to see his talent wasted, so his forced to make a choice, either be a singer or go back to be a CEO and inherit his family's billion fortune. He chose the singer route because it was easier than working as a CEO. The novel really is just about him trying to escape as much work as possible while still producing a lot of work earth that impressed everyone. The only good thing about this one is that MC already comes from a powerful and wealthy family so he doesn't have to deal with any of the negative side of the industry. As, no one would force members of the Ellison family to go drink with him to get a role in a movie....

Marvel: the Alchemist just want a peaceful life ⭐️⭐️⭐️

(漫威：炼金术士只想平静的生活)
(marvel comics, John Wick, urban, no harem)

MC is an alchemist in the Marvel Comic + John Wick Universe world. He is friend with John Wick because he saved his wife from cancer through alchemy. the Novel start with him saving Tony Stark from the desert kidnapping. Then his investigation into his parents' death as they were high ranking employees of the Stark Corporation. Then of course comes Thor.. and so and so forth. Read on if you like Marvel Comic Fanfics.

I'm the grandpa in a ring for the disciples ? ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(# 我才是徒弟们的随身老爷爷？)
(system, disciples, cultivation, sect building)

MC has a system that grants him stuff as he starts his own sect and recruit disciples. Except many of his disciples fit the profiles of MC in other popular cultivation webnovels. Like his first one was a lowly disciple from a sword sect that had his sword meridian broken and was kicked out.. even the names are similar as well. So it is just a fun one to read. He is also a cultivator in a WuXia world so that's his gold finger along with the system.

Street Food Vendor, becoming Food God starting from listening to advices ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(街头摆摊，从听劝开始成为食神)
(cooking, system, modern urban)

MC has a cooking god system that if he listens to other's useful advices, he'll get more skills, equipment, and recipes. He starts as a street vendor selling fried chicken outside of university, and grows to have his own restaurant, etc. etc. I just haven't read a cooking novel for a while and picked this one up, so far so good.

Dog of the Cultivation Dynasty ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(仙朝鹰犬)
(cultivation, system, scheming MC, haremish ?)

MC is in a world that had cultivation but now mostly are high martial wuxia. he has a system just triggers randomly and give him infos around the people he sees. He used it go get important Intels so he gets into a government's intelligence unit as an enforcer. Of course secretly he is doing cultivation through over-throwing the current dynasty. Like he gains two cultivation levels just by killing a princess. There are some scheming in there and the MC is certainly ruthless as well.

Entertainment World, Your King is Back ! ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(文娱：你们的皇帝回来了)
(chinese entertainment, reincarnation, system, haremish ?)

MC transmigrated into a new world, He has a system that grants him songs and other stuff from earth in loot box fashion. He used to become very successful and was called the King of the Entertainment World. Then when he got a rare disease and died when he was 30. The novel starts as MC is reborn five year later a canceled male idol in a subsidiary company of the company that he founded. So the novel is about his rising again now as an idol, and taking back control the company he once founded. I haven't seen a novel that combined iskai + reborn together, so it is interesting to read.

This Daoist is going to College ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(贫道要考大学)
(modern urban, light novel, slice of life, haremish ?, no system, cultivation)

ok, this one is really like a light novel. the MC is just a young daoist with a little bit of cultivation power. There are no system, no gold finger, no reincarnation, no face slapping. MC has been living in the daoist temple with his Daoist master for all his life in the mountains. Then when the Daoist master passed away, He found out that to inherit the temple, he needs a college education. So he went into the city and enrolled in high school to study for the college entrance exam and get that degree. He has some power, like good memory, good body control, and his cultivation level is kind of high, but the world itself has every little spirit energy so he is limited in what he can do. The book is very much slice of life and very slow paced. It mainly is just him studying in high school and getting involved with like three girls. The writing is good, so I kept reading.

Forging America, My campaign manager is FDR ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️

(缔造美利坚：我竞选经理是罗斯福)
(American politics, no harem, no system, American MC)

So MC is an American. He is doing his PHD in history and an avid fan of FDR (Franklin Roosevelt). He was deep in debit and just got fired from his job because he was criticizing an amazon like company on X. Then the spirit of FDR entered his mind and started coaching him on how to win elections and eventually become the President of the United State. It was the only way to make America Great Again. It is all about nationalizing the essential services, like finance, education, utility, health care, and making unions powerful again. Read on if you are interested in American politics.

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